Fed up with the Mac, I spent six months with a Linux laptop

Re:Fed up with the Mac, I spent six months with a Linux laptop by carlesfe on Saturday April 03, 2021 @03:23AM (#26678987)

I clarified now in the article that the "Linux Laptop" is a Dell XPS 13" Developer Edition, which is marketed indeed as a Linux laptop, and the Ubuntu is marketed as "Ubuntu Dell".

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Re:Fed up with the Mac, I spent six months with a Linux laptop by jmkni on Saturday April 03, 2021 @06:47AM (#26679905)

Dell don't sell any machines with Linux on them in the UK anymore (as far as I can tell).

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Re:Fed up with the Mac, I spent six months with a Linux laptop by jeswin on Saturday April 03, 2021 @03:38AM (#26679038)

> Screen tearing with the intel driver. Come on. This was solved on xorg and now with Wayland it's back.

Since you mentioned Dell XPS, I'm thinking they'd have sold it to you with Ubuntu 20.04. But why did you choose Wayland - which IIRC is not the default in 20.04? These are the trickiest pieces of the distro, and will take years to stabilize. Especially considering that Linux aims to work across the entire set of PCs in existence.

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Re:Fed up with the Mac, I spent six months with a Linux laptop by carlesfe on Saturday April 03, 2021 @03:47AM (#26679078)

It is a 2018 Dell XPS. It had a previous version preinstalled, which used Wayland. I explicitly remember having to edit the settings to run with Xorg because otherwise screen sharing in Google Meet would not work.

I upgraded to 20.04 at some point. During the six months I tried both environments. I ended up with Xorg just because it works.

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Re:Fed up with the Mac, I spent six months with a Linux laptop by nix23 on Saturday April 03, 2021 @04:14AM (#26679195)

Unbelievable how the Linux community makes excuses (on the desktop) instead of fixing shitty software...it's always the same....

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